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Using Team System for SharePoint development
From all indications, Microsft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) adoption is growing quickly as it provides an easy way to share information, facilitate collaboration, manage content, and implement workflow within enterprises.  We use it daily here Read More...
Posted 13 July 08 03:25 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance
Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on patterns & practices team even though it’s been released for some time now.  Since this was a surprise to many of them, I figured it’d be good mention Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 04:06 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Welcome Grant!
Grant Holliday , a former Team System MVP, recently joined our team focused on adoption of TFS internal to Microsoft.  Since he’s a veteran TFS user, he hit the ground running and now is a voracious force on the internal support aliases.  I’m Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:47 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Team System community update posted
Chuck Sterling , our Team System community lead, has posted a copy of his monthly update on community activities to his blog.  In the past, these updates have been only for internal consumption but, at my behest, he posted the most recent update Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:33 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Localized hotfix pages now available
We have hit another milestone on our journey to improve our process around delivering hotfixes to customers.  Now, not only will the most commonly requested hotfixes be available for download in English, but in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 03:28 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Tools for Agility - A white paper by Kent Beck
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy , a product manager on our team, recently worked with Kent Beck to publish a great white paper on tooling for the agile team. The section on transparency really resonated with me especially this passage: A transparent team can more Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:57 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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PDC2008
As you may have heard, registration is now open for the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference happening in October! PDC2008 is going to be packed with all of the latest information about the future of the Microsoft development platform. For Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:28 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Upcoming APLN Agile Leadership Conference
The next leadership summit for the Agile Project Leadership network (APLN) is scheduled to be held in Seattle a couple weeks from now on July 17th and 18th.  I’ve been invited to be part of their panel discussing “Leading the Agile Enterprise” which Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:25 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Seattle Team System User Group meeting this week
Steven Borg, one of our local Team System MVPs, is scheduled to talk at the next meeting of the Seattle Team System User Group.  He’ll be discussing reporting within Team System…the abstract seems pretty interesting: You’ve paid your nickel and it’s Read More...
Posted 22 June 08 03:02 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Check out good stuff from TechEd 2008
This was a good week for Team System at TechEd 2008 in Orlando.  I would recommend that you check out the TechEd 2008 Online site ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/default.aspx ) to learn about much of what was covered.  In particular, Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 06:44 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Radio TFS
After getting my first Zune in March for my birthday, I’ve really enjoyed getting familiar with the world of podcasting…it’s a great way to extend my learning and entertainment in to my exercise, commuting and yard work time.  As it turns out that Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 09:16 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Check out Brian the Build Bunny
Martin Woodward , one of our many Team System MVPs, just recently posted a blog article about a project he’s been working on for some time now.  Brian is actually a dedicated Nabaztag smart rabbit which reacts to the details of check-ins and builds.  Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 07:13 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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New edition of TFS Times
Paul Hacker , one of our 72 (!) Team System MVPs , has recently published a new edition of his very popular TFS Times . I’m impressed that even with his very busy personal and professional life that he’s able to publish this newsletter but somehow he Read More...
Posted 26 May 08 02:24 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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More Rosario specs available
While I hope many of you are now or soon to be actively using Visual Studio Team System 2008, we’re hard at work with developing our next release known as Rosario.  We’ve been publishing specs for some of the new features  and just refreshed Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 02:18 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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More Team System "Rosario" specs available for review
In November of last year, we started sharing a selection of the specs written for Team System "Rosario" features. At the time, we had just two specs available but the response from the community was very encouraging. As I predicted at the time, this sort Read More...
Posted 26 March 08 12:36 by jeffbe | 9 Comments   
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